The bad news is that, while DFS is really cool, it’s also unusable on Mac OS X without a third-party product. DFS also allows system administrators to have servers replicate their data on each other, which helps with reliability: if one DFS server goes down, users who were using files on it just have to reopen them (which actually opens one of those replicated copies) and get back to work. Any suggestions?ĭFS is indeed pretty cool: It allows multiple file servers-even if they’re in different physical locations-to appear to users as a single share. (We get a “Connection refused” message instead). But now that the servers are using Microsoft’s Distributed File System (DFS), we can’t do that anymore. Prior to that migration, those of us who use Macs were able to mount network shares via the Finder, using an smb:// URL. Our company is mostly Windows-based, with an Exchange Server, and we’re currently migrating from Novell Netware to Windows Server. If I had to guess, I’d say that printing problems make up at least one-third of my help-desk calls. Oh printing, so simple in concept, and yet, so bizarrely annoying and fragile in practice. I have to manually select the driver software the other Macs automatically detected the printer model. Interestingly, when I set up the printer on the MacBook Pro, giving it the printer’s IP address, the laptop apparently sees the printer on the network but can’t tell what kind it is. Turning the printer off and on clears the hang and it immediately prints. It just stalls, saying it can’t connect to the printer. It all works pretty well except for one thing: Our newest Mac, a brand-new 13-inch MacBook Pro, often refuses to print.
They share an old HP LaserJet 4000TN over a wired Ethernet connection we gave that printer a fixed IP address and set up IP printing on the Macs using the JetDirect option. We have several Macs of mixed vintages (most of them running Mac OS X 10.6.4). Two more questions this week: one about finding missing printer drivers, the other about accessing Microsoft DFS shares from a Mac.
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